Category Archives: cultural production

So, no: we didn’t actually hack scent communication in one weekend. (Did you really think we would?) But we tried, and sometimes that’s what really matters. We gathered and talked and smelled, and then we talked some more, and ate and laughed a lot, and then smelled some more still (there was lots of cabbage… … Continue reading →

TAAT (“Theatre as Architecture, Architecture as Theatre”) is a collaborative practice led by Dutch theater-maker Gert-Jan Stam and Belgian architect Breg Horemans, operating within the disciplines of theater, architecture, art and design to develop an innovative and unifying idea of “architectural dramaturgy”. One such long-term artistic-research exploration is HALL33, a project-series initiated by TAAT to … Continue reading →

A site-specific scent-installation presented at Command Alternative Escape in Venice, Italy from May 6 – 13, 2017 (curated by Natasha Pradhan): “Peter de Cupere is arguably the most innovative olfactory artist of our time. His previous works have inspired refugees to confront and heal seated traumas; provoked estranged intimacies by inviting the public to enter into … Continue reading →

Some people are forces of nature, and we’re lucky to have a few of them as advisors / associates here at Scent Art Net. One such person is Andreas Wilhelm, a perfumer based in Zurich, Switzerland, who collaborates extensively with artists, helping them realize their ideas and take them to the next level. In the … Continue reading →

We’ve all lost touch with our humanity; or so goes the post-truth pre-Trump ‘Instabook’ millennial thesis. This proposition has even been extended to perfumery, its primal communication finding affinity for some with the notion of the ‘noble savage’. The idea that a revival in animalics is caused by the attempted rejuvenation of feeling human in a digital age is very compelling but I do not believe it to be the stimulus of animalic themes in fragrance. Continue reading →

10. December 2016 – 22. January 2017 Kunstmuseum Thun / Projektraum Enter During the entire year, the question ‘How does art smell?’ was approached differently in the project room enter and presented in the experimental exhibition series Olfactory Exhibition. With works from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Thun, the series devoted itself to fragrance in … Continue reading →